<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jnwatson</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jnwatson</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:49:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jnwatson" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The cure for HER2- metastatic breast cancer is a simple matter of ...<p>Please predict the next word.<p>Intelligence is implicit in language understanding.  The best possible next-word-predictor is omniscient.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:02:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823184</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823184</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49823184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Survey fatigue is real. It seems that every transaction, larger or small, involves a follow up survey now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:59:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817189</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "Better routing, probe fixes, plugin updates in Freenet/Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1507"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The true paradox of the internet is that the more private, the more anonymous, the more safe a platform is, the more likely it will attract pedophiles, criminals, and terrorists.<p>You either have to accept the legal and moral consequences that your platform will be used for illegal things, or make your platform less safe, private, and anonymous.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:52:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727951</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, think of all the new security engineers we'll need!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:49:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727020</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727020</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And YouTube, and Cloud, and Play Store, and Waymo, not to mention that they could coast on their Anthropic and SpaceX stakes if they didn't have any of the above.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:59:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49718054</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49718054</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49718054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I run an abliterated distillation of Qwen 3.8 27B, slightly quantized to fit on my 4090, and I've been evaluating it to use as a worker bee for research directed by a smarter model.<p>Much like in the article, abliterated Qwen will not obey restrictions on its behavior encoded in the prompt. If you want something not to happen, it better be enforced in the harness or environment (e.g. sandbox). It is much different than the Anthropic models I'm used to, which will, the vast majority of time, follow rules (before auto mode, I used to always run them in "yolo" mode).<p>I am curious whether there's a connection between abliteration and rule following.  These abliterated models are the ones you most want to follow your rules.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:06:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49685526</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49685526</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49685526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "Apple A20 Pro Geekbench Result"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is like the good ol' days of the x86 wars.  Mo' cache, mo' GHz.<p>I find it impressive that these pocket computers are running at almost 5 GHz now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:55:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663460</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663460</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the history books, this'll be the post indicating the end of writing code as a professional occupation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:40:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646607</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646607</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "OUI-1: world's first model for Generative UI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It keeps the users on their toes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:59:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615065</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615065</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That was my thinking.  It is the first legit use case I've heard.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:21:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612506</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612506</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mind blown.  The more I read about statistics, the less I know.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:03:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612281</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612281</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On your last point, I was surprised how effective peer pressure was in getting agents to sacrifice for "the collective" (an agent's words) in the Hugging Face breach.<p>How would one prevent the watcher from being influenced in the same way by the agent being watched?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:32:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594244</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594244</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "The NX bit is not just about security"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, NX precedes Spectre by a long shot.  It was originally intended so an attacker couldn't use a buffer overflow to change the PC and execute directly out of the attacker-controlled buffer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:29:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593562</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It cuts token usage because they are using a different service with a different token budget for the reader/code writer tasks.<p>You can also just delegate this to subagents with Claude Code (though you have a more limited choice of models unless you swap the cheaper models via OpenRouter).<p>I'm OK using a dumb model as a smart grep, but the whole point of using the frontier models is using their intelligence for the hard stuff like coding.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:48:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571936</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571936</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It means it can execute arbitrary machine code in the sandbox.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:31:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570995</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570995</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reality Labs is a division of Meta...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:15:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570874</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570874</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah but some folks are just data collectors/hoarders. It isn't about consumption.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:14:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570869</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "Discontinuation of third level domain registrations for the .name TLD [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can't anyone set up a "registrar" for a subdomain of a domain they already use?  They control the DNS record, right?  Why is ICANN even involved here?<p>I don't see how this is any different, other than the second-level domain owner delegates their registrar job to the first-level domain owner.<p>There is something weird though if you control smith.name, that you don't control john.smith.name.  The DNS system does convey some indirect concept of responsibility.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:29:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541189</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "Discontinuation of third level domain registrations for the .name TLD [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are cancelling 3rd level domains, not the 2-level domain you have.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:25:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541145</link><dc:creator>jnwatson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541145</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jnwatson in "Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Ariely is named 636 times in the Epstein files".<p>Yikes.</p>
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